WANT FRIENDS?

Why is it so easy for some to make friends, while others struggle?

FELLOWSHIP:  If you stay home watching TV all the time how are you going to make friends?  The Bible says,  "...let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as it is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near."  Hebrews 10:24-25 NAS

REGARD others as greater than you.    You won't find many friends if you think more highly about yourself than others.   Do you always talk about yourself?
"Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;" Philippians 2:3 NAS

INITIATES friendships.   It is up to you to initiate friendships, whether meeting people for the first time, or staying in contact of those who you know.
"A man who has friends must himself be friendly, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."  Proverbs 18:24 NKJV

ENCOURAGER.   You need to be the encourager in all relationships.
"Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing."  I Thessalonians 5:11 NAS

NEAR to God.   People are attracted to Godly people.
"Draw near to God and He will draw near to you..."  James 4:8 NAS

DOES NOT keep accounts of all the bad things that people did to me.
"Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all thing."  I Corinthians 13:4-7 NAS

SERVES one another.   Christ has set the example to serve others.
"But it is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be you shall be your servant; and whoever wishes to be first among you shall be slave of all.  For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."  Mark 10:43-45 NAS

CONCLUSION
If you want friends, you must show your faith by your actions.